Milk-receptacle.



No. 889,986. vPAIPENTED JUNE 9, 1908.

E. Z. TAYLOR. MILK REGEPTAOLE.

' APPLICATION FILED APR. 12, 1907.

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ELMER ZEBLEY TAYLOR, OF LONDON, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR o MONO SERVICE VESSELS, LIMITED, or LONDON, ENGLAND.

MILK-RECEP'IAOLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 9, 1908.

Application filed April 12, 1907. Serial No. 367,874.

' To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELMER ZEBLEY TAY- LoR, a citizen of the United States, residing at 46 Pe'artree street, Goswell Road, London, England, have invented an Improved Milk- Receptacle, of which the following is a specification. I

This invention relates to an improved construction of aper vessel, suitable for containing li uid or other produce, and especially app ioable for use in the delivery of milk to customers, the cost of materials and of production being so slight that,after having been once used the vessel may be destroyed, thus avoiding the risk of transmission of infectious diseases, while at the same time the retailer is spared the large original outlay for and the cost of collecting and cleaning, the cans or bottles usually employed.

Vessels of the class to which the invention relates are usually of taperform, and comprise a paper tube into which a bottom is secured, and a lid or cover.

The present invention consists in the general combination of the parts as hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings :Figure 1 is a vertical section of a complete vessel constructed in accordance with the invention, Fig. 2 an enlarged sectional view of the upper end and lid thereof, and Fig. 3 an enlarged sectional view of the lower end and bottom piece. 1

In carrying out the invention a paper tube 1, which is of conical form as shown and a bottom 2, are provided, such bottom 2 consisting of a disk of paper or similar material and being secured in the paper tube 1 in substantially the manner described in the specification of an application filed April 12, 1907, Serial No. 367 ,873. This arrangement consists in forming the bottom of such size that when its outer edge has been turned down all round, as shown at 3, it will a proximately fit the lower end of the paper tube 1, and providing a ring 4 of thin metal of U-sect1on, which is placed over the lower end of the aper tube and the turned down edge 3 ofottom 2 and then by suitable means pressed into the material of which such arts are composed until it is substantially ush with the surface thereof, the inside surfaces of ring 4 being preferably roughened by any suitable means to assist thegrip thereof on the paper sides and bottom.

per edge of the vessel below will abut when a number are nested together. The projection 5 may be formed at about the same distance from the top of the vessel as the lower edge of the doubled-in portion 6, as shown in Fig. 1, orat a lower level as shown in Fig. 2, the doubled-in portion being prevented from spreading subsequently by the insertion of the lid or top hereinafter described.

Around the doubled-in portion a groove 7 is formed. in the inner surface of the vessel, into which groove is forced the lid employed, consisting of a flat disk 8 of paper or similar material, and which is fitted when the vessel has been filled. It Will be seen that the lid 8 is of larger diameter than that of the vessel immediately above the groove or corrugation 7, but a little smaller than the size of the top of the pail, so that such lid will therefore have to be sprung into position in such groove after the vessel has been filled, but that the interior diameter of the vessel at the point 9 below the groove is so much less than the size of the disk 8 that the latter cannot be inserted beyond such point 9, and further that the lid cannot be removed from the vessel Without either itself or the vessel being damaged or destroyed.

The parts above described are coated on one or both sides with boiling paraffin wax or similar material in the known manner, and after being heated to a high degree to destroy germs and drive off any surplus of the coating material, and allowed to dry, will be ready for use.

Paper vessels constructed in accordance with this invention may be emptied by first removing the lid and then pouring out the contents in the same manner-as from a glass or the like, but to facilitate such emptying it is preferred to weaken the upper edge at any suitable point by indenting same on the lines 10, 11, 12, the weakening indentation of its wall folded inwardly against the inner being preferably deeper along the central vertica line 10 than along the inclined lines 11 and 12. The result of this arrangement will be. that if the upper edge of the vessel between lines 11 and 12 beforced outwards, as by pressing the thumbs against same, the paper will break along the line 10 and be ent out on the lines 11 and 12, thus forming a lip or spout from which the contents of the vessel can'be readily and conveniently poured, without it being necessary to remove the lid 8.

. What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,'is

' 1. A paper vessel having the upper margin face of said wall to form a reinforced marginal portion, the two parts constituting said marginal portion being bent outwardly to form an annular recess thereby serving to aflord an interlocking engagement between said parts, and a lid adapted to seat in the recess of the inwardly bent portion, said lid and inwardly bent-portion coo erating with each other whereby the lid is 'eld in place by the inwardly bent portion and whereby the lid serves to maintain the inwardly bent portion in interlocking engagement with the wall of the vessel.

2. A paper vessel having the upper margin of its wall folded inwardly against'the inner face of said wall to form a reinforced marginal portion, said folded margin and faceof said wall to form a reinforced maral portion; said folded margin and wall eing bent outwardly to form 'an angular recess at a point between the up er reinforced margm of the vessel and t e lower free margin of said folded portion thereby affording interlocking engaging parts for said wall and marginal portion, said reinforced portion being bent outwardly above said recess with respect to the wal of the vessel thereby causing the inwardly bent marginal portion to form a shoulder below said recess,

. and a lid seated in said recess, said lid and inwardly folded portion cooperating with each. other whereby ;the lid is secured/ in place and whereby the lid serves to hold the lnwardly folded mar in in interlocking relation with the Wall of the vessel.

' 4. An article of manufacture comprising a 'vessel having the up er margin of its wall weakened on a vertica line and on adjacent angular lines converging toward said vertical line whereby a spout-may be formed by pressing outwardly on said weakened portion.

5. An article of manufacture comprising a vessel having the uppermargin of its wall weakened whereby a spout ma be formed by pressing outwardly on sai portion.

6. An vessel having its upper. margin wardly to form a reinforced portion, and a lid fitting said reinforced portion at a pointbelow the upper margin of the vessel, said reinforced margin being weakened on a vertical line and on angular lines converging toward said vertical linewhereby a spout may be formed bypressing outwardly on said weakened portion.

7. An article of manufacture com rising a vessel having its upper margin ent 1nwardlyto form a reinforced portion, and a lid fitting said reinforced portion, said reinforced margin or portion being weakened on a vertical and on an lar lines converging toward said vertical ine whereby a spout may be formed by pressing outwardly on said weakened portion, said vertical and an gular lines extendin below-said lid.

. 8. A paper vessel aving the upper margin article of manufacture com rising'a, ent 1n--'" weakened of its wall folded inwardly against the inner face of saidwall' to form a reinforced marinal portion, said foldedmargin and wall being bent outwardly to form an annular recess at a )OlIlt between the up er reinforced margin of the vessel and t e lower free margin ofthe folded portion, thereby providing interlocking engaging parts for said Wall and folded. portion sai reinforced portion being bent outwardly below saidre-' cess to form an annular shoulder, and aremovable lid seated in said recess said lid when in position forcing said inwardly folded margin into interlocking engagement with I the wall of the vessel and also serving to hold the lower edge of said marginal engagement with said sh'oulder';

In testimony whereof I affix my signature portion into in presence of two witnesses.-

' ELMER ZEBLEY TAYLOR. v Witnesses:

H. L. JAMESON,

F. D. RAND} I 

